| Letter From the Editor |
| Writer: | Erik Zidowecki |
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| Voynich Manuscipt - Cryptic Codex |
| Writer: | Lucille Martin |
| Images: |
| Stefan Bauer: Prague Castle today |
| Estec sarl.: Panoramatic view to Charles Bridge and the Prague Castle |
| Obankston: Enochian alphabet |
| Petey: Wilfrid Voynich, Rudolph II, Johannes Marcus Marci, Roger Bacon, Edward Kelley, Villa Mondragone, all images of the Voynich Manuscript |
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| Sources: |
| • "Voynich Manuscript" World Mysteries <http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_13.htm> |
| • "The Voynich Manuscript" Crystallinks <http://www.crystalinks.com/voynich.html> |
| • "Voynich Manuscript" Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/voynich-manuscript> |
| • "The Voynich Manuscript" John Baez, University of California, Riverside <http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/voynich.html> |
| • "Voynich manuscript" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Manuscript> |
| • "Enochian" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian> |
| • "Zipf's Law" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law> |
| • "Georg Baresch" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Baresch> |
| • "Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor> |
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| Benjamin Whorf - Relativity of Language |
| Writer: | Sofia Ozols |
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| WestportWiki: Yale Old Campus Courtyard |
| Daderot: Stela 10, Mayan artifact from Seibal, Guatemala (AD 849) |
| Petey: Benjamin Whorf, Edward Sapir, Chaco Canyon Indian dwellings, Stone house of the Hopi village of Oraibi, Hopi woman dressing hair of unmarried girl |
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| Sources: |
| • "Benjamin Lee Whorf" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf> |
| • "Benjamin Lee Whorf" Citizendium <http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf> |
| • "Benjamin Lee Whorf" princeton.edu <https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf.html> |
| • "Benjamin Lee Whorf" Encyclopedia of World Biography <http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf.aspx> |
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| At The Cinema - Lost in Translation |
| Writer: | Erik Zidowecki |
| Sources: |
| • "Lost in Translation" Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/> |
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| All images are copyright Focus Features, Tohokashinsha Film Company Ltd., American Zoetrope, Elemental Films |
| Languages in Peril - The Polish Connection |
| Writer: | Lucille Martin |
| Images: |
| Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202: Zasanska Pass (title) West Carpathian Mountains, Poland |
| Tomasz Sienicki: Bilingual Polish-Kashubian road sign in Poland |
| Russianname: Rusyn farmsted (from the village of Lyuta, Beliko-Bereznyanski region) |
| Silar: Rusyn woman's costume from Presov |
| Lajsikonik: Banner Pro Loquela Silesiana the fourth Palestinian march |
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| Sources: |
| • "Kashubian language" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_language> |
| • "Kashubian" Omniglot <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/kashubian.htm> |
| • "Kashubian language: Meaning" explanationGuide <http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Kashubian-language.html> |
| • "Rusyn language" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyn_language> |
| • "Pannonian Rusyn language" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Rusyn_language> |
| • "Ruthenian" Omniglot <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/rusyn.htm> |
| • "What is a Rusyn?" slovakia.org <http://www.slovakia.org/society-rusyn.htm> |
| • "Silesian language" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_language> |
| • "Silesian" Omniglot <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/silesian.php> |
| • "Silesian language and the Polish language" Claritaslux.com <http://claritaslux.com/blog/silesian-language-polish-language/> |
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| Word on the Streets - Romanian Poets |
| Writer: | Sofia Ozols |
| Images: |
| Petey: Romanian street, Eminescu, Alecsandri |
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| Sources: |
| • "Mihai Eminescu" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Eminescu> |
| • "Mihai Eminescu" NNDB <http://www.nndb.com/people/868/000095583/> |
| • "Mihai Eminescu" Polymer Notes <http://www.polymernotes.org/biographies/ROU_bio_eminescu.htm> |
| • "Vasile Alecsandri" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Alecsandri> |
| • "Vasile Alecsandri" Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions <http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ac/alecsan.htm> |
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| Where Are You? |
| Writer: | Sonja Krüger |
| Celebrations - Holi |
| Writer: | Sonja Krüger |
| Images: |
| Diganta Talukdar: Holi celebration at Nagaon (title) |
| FaceMePLS: Holi Feest 2008 |
| Ronaldo Lazzari: Bonfire on Holi Dahan |
| Karen Sandhu: Holi party in Delhi, with crowd and a tree decorated in coloured fabrics |
| gkrishna38: Braj Lath mar Holi at Barasana, India |
| Biswarup Ganguly: Holi Colors at a street shop at Deanesh Skeikh lane, Howrah |
| Charles Haynes: Papads; Papri Chaat |
| Md. Saiful Aziz Shamseer: Man playing Ektara |
| Eliza Raschke: Shop selling colours for Holi, Old Delhi |
| wonker: Women preparing the Holika Dahan bonfire at Thapathali, Kathmandu. Nepal |
| judepics: Holi celebrations, Pushkar, Rajasthan |
| Chris Willis: Girl in colors |
| Ingo Mehling: Holi Bonfire in front of Jagdish Temple / Udaipur (flash page) |
| Petey: A rajah and his wife celebrating holi; Mathri |
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| Sources: |
| • "Holi" Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi> |
| • "Holi Festival" Holifestival.org <http://www.holifestival.org/holi-festival.html> |
| • "Hinduism" About.com <http://hinduism.about.com/od/holifestivalofcolors/a/holybasics.htm> |
| • "Holi - the festival of colours" Indiaexpress.com <http://www.indiaexpress.com/rangoli/holi.html> |
| • "Indian Holidays : Holi" Calendarlabs <http://www.calendarlabs.com/holidays/india/holi.php> |
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| A Language Dream |
| Writer: | Hidson Guimarães |
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| Revisited - Words From National Character |
| Writer: | Elizabeth O'Neill |
| Images: |
| CristianChirita: Statue of barbarian king imprisoned |
| Petey: "Barbarians from the South" (title); Painting of a Bohemian woman; "Arabs Drinking Coffee in Front of a Tent"; Depiction of a Turk in the 16th century; Statue of a Japanese ogre |
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| Sources: |
| • "Words From National Character" Stories That Words Tell Us Elizabeth O'Neill, M.A. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd. 35 Paternoster Row, E.C. And Edinburgh 1918 |
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| Language Learning Methods - Classes |
| Writer: | Erik Zidowecki |
| Images: |
| Vmenkov: Lnxia Foreign Languages School |
| Kubaru: English Language Lab |
| The LEAF Project: FLCC Classes @ Canandaigua Campus |
| Shane Global: General English Class |
| Rbok: Japanese High school Language Lab |
| HBS1908: Inside a classroom |
| Dragfyre: The University of Da Nang's Foreign Languages School. |
| Subhashish Panigrahi: School of languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| Niepr: State-of-the-art Collaborative Classroom |
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| Sections - Language Exchange |
| Writer: | Erik Zidowecki |
| Images: |
| Karoly Czifra: people gathering |
| kris krüg: women meeting |
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